Haiti was by far more prosperous to France than Canada was.

The prosperity of the French colony was based upon slavery. By the time of the French Revolution, the population of slaves in Haiti was somewhere between 500 and 700 thousand. Most were slaves imported from Africa, predominantly from the west central African region of Dahomey. The hard labor of the plantations, along with the epidemics endemic to the tropics, kept the mortality rate high, necessitating the continuing importation of slaves from Africa.
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Haiti was by far more prosperous to France than Canada was.
And we should never forget this.
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